Bath replacement

FranP

M0nica

We are about to change our bath. The hosue we have just moved to has a Victorian style bath on legs. It is very deep and very narrow and is not easy to get inand out of. We are replacing it with the bath we had in our previous house, relatively low and easy to get in and out of. Both of us prefer baths to showers, so will use a bath as long as we can

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I found deeper and narrower were easier to get out of, but if you are changing, then do look at one with built in handles. Some of them also have patterns by the taps to enable you to get purchase for your feet. And do check sizes, because some of the older baths are smaller, and you may need space at the back if you are a bath soaker to lay your head more easily.

We are buying exactly the same bath we had in our last house and bought again for our French house, when we had it. We were using this model of bath until we moved house in July and look frward to having it again.

I don't see any logic here at all. Why don't you wait the '2 years' and do it all at same tme as opposed to just changing bath just now????? I defo would not have taps different colours! Why getting a bigger bath...very unusual in this day and age as it takes more water to fill it!

I have kept a bath in the bathroom in my flat (with shower above it), and a shower in the en-suite. I know many of the flats here have changed to having just a shower in both rooms. But, there are times when still want the luxury of relaxing in a bath.

My eldest grand=daughter (aged 22 yrs), rents a lovely flat with her boy-friend right in the centre of the city in which they live. However, this has just a shower, and top of her wish list is for them to find somewhere different where she can have a bath (and a cat).

When she visits her Mum back home, she always uses the opportunity of having a long bath in the P-shaped bath she remembers from her childhood. My daughter, (her Mum), never uses the bath, only the shower. Another adult granddaughter has to ensure anywhere she rents has a proper bath as she needs to this at least once a week for her skin condition.

When I had a new bath in the bathroom, I purchased some sticky shapes that I put in the bath at the shower & tap end, which hardly can be seen, but make that area completely non slippy. Have a grab handle on the wall by the shower and a very firm screw on grab rail to get and out of the bath. It is very safe.

I'd get the taps now for both the bath and sink and that you'll still be happy with when you change the subject later. Like an idiot, I let my husband get a replacement tap for the kitchen sink while I was at work. Being the cheapskate he was/is, rather than replacing the whole mixer tap, he replaced just cold water tap with chrome though the rest of the mixer tap was white. That chrome tap bugged me for years because he wouldn't change it to white.

Sink not subject

We still have 2 baths with showers over. To avoid slipping (particularly when I was still wobbly after a nasty dose of pneumonia) I always use a rubber mat with suckers underneath, from Boots, about £7. Have to remember to hang it over the side of the bath every time, though, or it goes mouldy underneath.

I haven’t invariably remembered, so if it’s been for any length of time (e.g. just before going away) I’ve had to buy another. Currently on my 3rd….